Import.io extracts structured data from public web pages at scale, with pricing intelligence as its headline application – tracking competitor pricing across retail sites.
The value is in what it removes. Web scraping is easy to start and miserable to sustain: sites change layout, add bot protection and rate-limit, so a scraper that worked last month silently returns nothing this month. A managed extraction service absorbs that maintenance, which is the entire reason to buy rather than build.
Two things to settle before adopting any extraction tool: the legal position on scraping varies by jurisdiction and by the target site’s terms, and that responsibility sits with you rather than the vendor. Pricing intelligence on public retail pages is the well-established use; check your own case against your legal advice. Pricing runs through sales.
